RWD70 Electronic Implementation of Patient-Reported Outcomes: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Abstract

As a consequence of recent advances in information technology and wider availability of personal portable devices, the use of electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes (ePROs) in clinical research is constantly growing. Although ePROs have several advantages (such as limited data entry errors and ease of remote compilation), their employment poses new challenges both when reproducing paper-based PROs onto electronic platforms, and when it is necessary to transfer an already available ePRO from the original implementation platform to a different data collection system. The aim of this work is to report challenges and solutions when implementing ePROs.